Albert Oscar Segerberg (1881—13 July 1941) was an Australian cameraman. He began shooting films as early as 1896, and later worked as a cameraman for Pathé Frères, the Australian Photo-Play Company and the Fraser brothers. He shot large numbers of newsreels, and industrial and educational documentaries, including his own series, ''Australia at Work''.Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, ''Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, p 32 Segerberg claimed to have taken the first moving pictures in Australia at the 1896 Melbourne Cup and shown it in the Opera House,

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Selected filmography

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Cooee and the Echo ''Cooee and the Echo'' is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe (director), Alfred Rolfe. It is considered a lost film. Plot In northern Queensland, a young miner is determined to avenge the murder of his brother by another min ...

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Whose Was the Hand? ''Whose Was the Hand?'' is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe. It is considered a lost film. Plot A young man is heavily in debt and decides to get out of it by robbing his uncle. He does this with a criminal accomplice. Dur ...

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The Moira, or Mystery of the Bush ''Moira, or The Mystery of the Bush'' is a 1912 Australian silent film directed by Alfred Rolfe (director), Alfred Rolfe. It is considered a lost film. It may also be known as ''Call of the Bush''. Charles Woods appeared as a lecturer accompan ...

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The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show ''The Hayseeds' Back-blocks Show'' is a 1917 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. It was the third in his series about the rural family, the Hayseeds. It is considered a lost film. Synopsis Dad Hayseed and his friends from Stone ...

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The Hayseeds Come to Sydney ''The Hayseeds Come to Sydney'' (also known as ''The Hayseeds Come to Town'') is a 1917 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. The second in the Hayseeds series of movies, is considered a lost film. Synopsis In Stoney Creek, Dad H ...

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The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup ''The Hayseeds' Melbourne Cup'' is a 1918 Australian rural comedy from director Beaumont Smith. It was the fourth in his series about the rural family, the Hayseeds, and centers on Dad Hayseed entering his horse in the Melbourne Cup. It is consid ...

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A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860 ''A Romance of Burke and Wills Expedition of 1860'' is a 1918 Australian silent film. The plot is fictional and is loosely based around the Burke and Wills expedition. Plot Robert O'Hara Burke leads an expedition from Melbourne to the north of A ...

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Australian cinematographers 1881 births 1941 deaths {{Cinematographer-stub